The November monthly news round up features correctional nurse experts talking about the correctional nursing implications of news stories from the last month. Returning panelist, Sue Lane, RN, CCHP is Infection Control Coordinator with Armor Correctional Health Services, Inc. at the Broward County Detention Centers in Fort Lauderdale, FL. In addition she is an NCCHC Surveyor and just completed a…
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When I started in correctional nursing 8 years ago it was like entering a brave new world. Truth be told, I didn’t even know nurses worked in jails and prisons until I answered an online advertisement for the NJ prison system. Many of you have similar stories of becoming correctional nurses ‘accidently’. None of us grew up telling anyone we…
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This is a special edition of Correctional Nursing Today coming to you live from the National Conference on Correctional Health Care in Las Vegas. JoRene Kerns, Vice President for Special Projects, and Fran Tompkins, Nurse Educator, at CorrectCare Solutions sit down with me during the conference to answer some listener and reader questions from the past few months. New Correctional…
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